WTC: Architects Are Disconnected From Reality

If the first WTC design process was hijacked by the Port Authority, this process has been hijacked by architects.

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December 20, 2002, 2:00 PM PST

"While plenty of architects with clients are disconnected from reality, an architect without a client is virtually guaranteed to be disconnected from reality. Yet clientless architects are exactly what the seven teams whose plans were released this week are. While the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation commissioned the plans, it doesnt have the money or the authority to actually build any of the buildings. Some of the plans put forth this week didnt even have rough price tags attached. Suspending capitalism in this case seems a bit far to go to satisfy a critic and his coterie of architects."

Thanks to Chris Steins

FULL STORY: Capitalism and the Architects

Friday, December 20, 2002 in The New York Sun

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